2026 School Health Workshop – February 2, 2026
Due to the increasing prevalence of the modified year-round school calendars, our next School Health Workshop will take place February 2, 2026. There will not be an event in 2025. We align our date with the Olde English Consortium Professional Development Day. Here is a DRAFT agenda, and we are working to finalize an additional speaker. Registration and credit card payment is now live on Event Brite. If paying by check, you can use this form.
8:00 a.m. Registration & light breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and acknowledgement of sponsor, Chester Healthcare Foundation
8:35 a.m. Concussion/Traumatic Brain Injury Prevention
Karilyn Tremblay, MPH
Injury Prevention and Aging Programs Director
SC Department of Public Health
9:30 a.m. Break
9:45 a.m. Measles and Pertussis
Anna-Kathryn Burch, MD
Division Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Medical Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Prisma Health Children’s Hospital – Midlands
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. NAMI 101 / NAMI On Campus
Jennifer Sims, NAMI
12:00 p.m. Lunch served
1:00 p.m. Mental Health: Helping Students Cope with Anxiety
Joan DuBose, PhD, LPCS, LCMHCS, LPC, LAC, MAC, AADC, TF-CBT
Clinical Director
All is Well Counseling and Consulting Services, LLC
2:00 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. Motivational Interviewing
Lauren Thomas, MPH, MCHES, NBC-HWC
Instructor of Health Promotion, Education, & Behavior
USC Lancaster
3:00 p.m. (Topic) (tentative)
(speaker and credentials)
3:45 p.m. Wrap Up and Evaluations
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
If you have questions, please call 803-377-8026 or email knichols (at) umrhn.org. CEU’s will be finalized once all speakers are confirmed.
We would like to thank the Chester Healthcare Foundation and Mid-Carolina AHEC for their continued support of our program!